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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:50:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      doug@safeport.com
To:        Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dmesg not working on new system
Message-ID:  <20060605204320.U85348@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060605173024.Q56395@ns1.internetinsite.com>
References:  <44843B61.5050209@chrismaness.com> <448469D5.8060700@scls.lib.wi.us> <20060605105358.Q54670@ns1.internetinsite.com> <44847336.9050908@scls.lib.wi.us> <448xobpi30.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20060605145453.S55741@ns1.internetinsite.com> <20060605193741.N62495@fledge.watson.org> <20060605173024.Q56395@ns1.internetinsite.com>

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I am assuming you do not have a serial console but yes check out 'man 
loader.conf'.

I did not remember but got it pretty quickly by search 'boot+verbose'. The 
handbook is really pretty good these days. That said I have never tried the 
loader.conf option.

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Chris Maness wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, doug wrote:
>
>> A couple of things you can try: turn on the all.log line in syslog.conf; 
>> and, mkae sure syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf match the source tree. If all 
>> that looks okay, do a boot verbose (I forget the syntax). If you are 
>> getting any warning or status messages that could cause this either the 
>> all.log or the boot should show them.
>> 
>
> There are no deltas between the two files and there originals from the source 
> tree.  I administer this box via remote shell (ssh).  Is there a way to boot 
> in verbose mode via a remote connection?
>



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